Back to the future: Year 2000 from 1975

In 1975, Motor Trend mag- azine asked a number of automobile experts to gaze into their crystal balls and predict what the automobile industry would be like in the year 2000 {now only seven years away).

‘Below is a sampling of their replies, with their job positions at the time of the interview.

The automobile will be obsolete for urban transportation by the vear 2000, but will be used for non-city travel. I look for electric cars ... electric mass transit ... possibly a new vehicle propulsion System.

@—Paul J. Brown

Director, Safety Research Labo-

ratory. The future of the automobile rests .on a simple basic fact — “people love cars and will work hard and make sacrifices in order to satisfy their desire. The type of - engine will certainly change (mv personal bet is electric), but indi- viduals will continue to demand a personal vehicle that will take them io where they want to go. @—Arjay Miller Dean, Stanford University. ~ The automobile indusiry is “a growth industry and it will always

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be one. It has to be, because per-

sonal transportation isn't going away and over the jong run there must be a growing: number of vehicles to varry a growing popu- lation and its- goods fram one place to another. I can’t tell you precisely what automobiles will be like in the year 2000, but I can give you this much of a predic- tion: they will still move on four wheels and be powered by comi- bustion engines fuelled by liquid petroleum. @—l.ee A. Iacocca

President, Ford Motor Com- pany. (Early the next year, Iacocca was quoted 2s saying: ‘‘Three years ago, how did I know that the

‘name of the game would be

miles-per-gallon instead of how fast you can go from a stop- light?’’) : Aerodynamic torture of inno- cent air must cease. A 60 mpg, (wo-passenger commuter car Is not only possible but an academic must’ for our energy survival. Without mobility there can be no prosperity. Period! @ —Aiex Sarantos Trerulis Independent Designer.

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